Am 21.10.2016 ist auf der halben Welt das Internet quasi komplett ausgefallen. Dahinter steckte ein unglaublich brutaler Angriff eines Mirai-Botnets auf einen Teil der Infrastruktur des Webs. Wer steckte dahinter? Und was haben Minecraft, Liberia und Überwachungskameras damit zu tun?

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Quellen:

[1] TechCrunch - Large DDoS attacks cause outages at Twitter, Spotify, and other sites (2016)
https://techcrunch.com/2016/10/21/man...

[2] Wired - How a Dorm Room Minecraft Scam Brought Down the Internet (2017)
https://www.wired.com/story/mirai-bot...

[3]
Schneier on Security - Someone Is Learning How to Take Down the Internet (2016)
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archive...

[4]
US Department of Justice - Individual Pleads Guilty to Participating in Internet-of-Things Cyberattack in 2016 (2020)
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/indivi...

[5]
Cloudfare - What is a DDoS Botnet? https://www.cloudflare.com/en-gb/lear...

[6]
Cloudfare - Inside the infamous Mirai IoT Botnet: A Retrospective Analysis (2017)
https://blog.cloudflare.com/inside-mi...

[7]
ars Technica - Record-breaking DDoS reportedly delivered by →145k hacked cameras (2016)
https://arstechnica.com/information-t...

[8]
Elie - Understanding the Mirai Botnet (2017)
https://elie.net/publication/understa...

[9]
CSO - Some thoughts on the Krebs situation: Akamai made a painful business call (2016)
https://www.csoonline.com/article/312...

[10]
Krebs on Security - How Google Took on Mirai, KrebsOnSecurity (2017)
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2017/02/h...
[11]
Krebs on Security - Source Code for IoT Botnet ‘Mirai’ Released (2016)
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2016/10/s...
[12]
Wired - The Web-Shaking Mirai Botnet Is Splintering---But Also Evolving (2016)
https://www.wired.com/2016/11/web-sha...

[13]
Bloomberg - The Hacker Who Took Down a Country (2019)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/featur...

[14]
The Washington Post - A cyberattack could disrupt Tuesday’s U.S. elections — but wouldn’t change the results (2016)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/m...

[15]
The Guardian - DDoS attack that disrupted internet was largest of its kind in history, experts say (2017)
https://www.theguardian.com/technolog...

[16]
Tech crunch - The sinkhole that saved the internet (2019)
https://techcrunch.com/2019/07/08/the...

[17]
https://www.malwaretech.com/2016/10/m...

[18]
https://www.play3.de/2020/05/18/minec...

[19]
https://www.giga.de/spiele/minecraft/...

[20]
https://www.cloudflare.com/en-gb/prod...

[21]
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2017/01/w...

[22]
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2017/12/m...

[23]
https://www.ccc.de/de/updates/2019/up...

[24]
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news...

[25]
https://www.fortinet.com/blog/threat-...

[26]
https://www.avira.com/en/blog/katana-...


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Anton Vlasov - Welcome to my City
Ostin Drais - Cornered Beast
Tilman Sillescu - Wait and see
Jon Gegelman - Mist; Fluttering
Ian Post - Magnetic Storms; Turtle Blues
Michael Vignola - Falling to Zero
Mogli the Iceburg - Ghost
Jimmy Svensson - Other world; Connect now; Full access; Source Code
Max H. - Assault
Kevin Graham - Juggernaut

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